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After diet and exercises have failed to make him thin, Yang Bin gets up the courage to tackle his obesity through surgery. Yang, 47, is 160 cm (5’3″) tall but weighs 120 kg (264#) . “I’ve had enough of it,” says the former technician in Wuzhong City, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The excess […]

A Chinese court sentenced a nanny to death for setting a fire that killed three children and their mother, in a case that has prompted a national discussion about greed, trust, inequality and neglect. Investigations found that Mo Huanjing, 35, a former nanny of the family of Lin Shengbin, guilty of arson after she set […]

The surface area of Hulun Lake, the largest freshwater lake in north China, has expanded over the past five years due to strengthened protection efforts, local authorities said Monday. The surface area of the lake in Hulun Buir City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has reached 2,038 square kilometers, an increase of 288 square kilometers from […]

From Dec 6-9 of this year, Japanese Facebook dating app Match Alarm quizzed 2,944 singles in their 20s and 30s about their dating habits. They were asked to identify if they prefer to date someone of the same age, older or younger. A resounding 81.3% of women replied that they would rather be with a […]

Zhuankou Yangtze Bridge, the widest bridge over the Yangtze River, opened for traffic on Thursday. The bridge, with eight lanes, is the ninth bridge over the Yangtze in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province. Excluding the highway on both sides, the bridge itself is 1,510 meters long and 46 meters wide. Costing 5.2 billion […]

China’s social media platform WeChat was abuzz with people posting photographs of themselves aged 18, on Saturday and Sunday. The trend showed many Chinese readying themselves for 2018 in nostalgic mood. But why 18? On Sunday, even the youngest members of China’s post-90s generation — those born on Dec. 31, 1999 — will turn 18 […]

The major work of the world’s longest sea bridge was completed Sunday as scheduled, after its lighting system was installed and tested, authorities said. It took six years preparation and eight years to build the 55-kilometer-long bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao. Major work on the bridge consisted of a 22.9-kilometer-long main bridge, a […]

President Xi Jinping instructed the armed forces to strengthen real combat training and improve its war-winning capability. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission(CMC), made the remarks while issuing an order at a mobilization meeting held by the commission. It was the first […]

A ban on imports of millions of tonnes of plastic waste by the Chinese government is already causing a build up of rubbish at recycling plants around the UK and will bring chaos for councils in the weeks ahead, according to industry experts. Simon Ellin, chief executive of the UK Recycling Association, said his members […]

A man was detained for allegedly making up and spreading a rumor about a property owner receiving sky high compensation from the government to make way for construction near Shenzhen North Railway Station in Longhua District. The man, surnamed Sun, allegedly started the rumor after he saw a video clip of the demolition of the […]